University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Dortmund - Germany

Faculty of Business Administration

International Project Week - Creativity and Creative Problem Solving

Course coodinators: Michael Littman (Buffalo), Ilias Ntais, Mehman Najafli (EuroMPM Dortmund)

Participants

We offer one week of studies in Creativity and Creative Problem Solving.

We will start with case studies that help us to get a better understanding of creativity.

We will use several basic tools that stimulate creativity.

We will apply advanced tools for creative problem solving like TRIZ.

Course structure

1. Let´s try to collect our individual knowledge - let´s try to define creativity
2. Let´s talk about some very creative products
3. Let´s evaluate our creativity (completion)
4. Let´s look how Leonardo developed his creativity - introduction and case study (man)
5. Let´s do some deeper research on Leonardo (proportions, relations, perspectives, ... )
6. Let´s improve creativity in teams - concepts and cases (brain writing - 6-3-5 - 5 hats - 5 boots - ... )
7. Let´s look for tools and let´s classify tools - web search
8. Let´s try to understand the creative problem solving process
9. Let´s try to develop a creative problem solving process for our teams
10. Let´s look what engineers did (TRIZ)
11. Le´s do some research on patents (selected cases,databases, classification)
12. Let´s take TRIZ to other fields
13. Let´s look at our brain - structure and functions
14. Let´s talk about innovation
15. Let´s talk about the stimulation of creativity in organizations

Visit the Idealab to get insight on the ideas we are working on!

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	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9-10	-	Creativity, Leadership, and Corporate Culture	Creativity and Human Resource Mgt	Creativity and Future Organizational Strategies	Visual TRIZ
10-11	Opening	Creativity, Leadership, and Corporate Culture	Creativity and Human Resource Mgt	Creativity and Future Organizational Strategies	ORM
11-12	Introduction	Visual Thinking	Creativity and Marketing	TRIZ	ORM
12-13	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13-14	Sjir Nijssen	Visual Thinking	PMBOK®	TRIZ Case Study	Case Study I
14-16	Creativity and the USA	Mind-mapping	PMBOK®	TRIZ game	Case Study II
16-18	Creativity test	Creativity test	PMBOK®	Work on documentation	Work on documentation

Preliminary course schedule

0. Introduction of the participants - personal issues, university/study course, expectations, ...

1. Introduction
1.1 Creative men and women - Archimedes, Leonardo, Edison, ...
1.2 Creative products: Modile phone, paper clip,
1.3 Creative companies: BMW, Renault, Siemens, ...
1.4 Historical remarks: Creativity before and after the Sputnik shock

2. First case study - We are creative - let us test it
2.1 Completion of pictures
2.2 Composition and rareness as indicators for creativity

3. Second case study - Leonardo´s grotesque heads show us the path to creativity

4. Visual thinking
4.1 Introduction - brain functions, ...
4.2 Mind Mapping - concepts, cases, ...
4.3 System thinking - ...

5. Mancala

6. TRIZ
6.1 Introduction
6.2 TRIZ research - classical
6.3 TRIZ research - non-classical

7. TRIZ case